Alvaro is a senior associate at the firm who has over 5 years of professional experience. He focuses on banking and financial regulation, M&A and financing transactions.

In the banking and finance field, he developed expertise at the Central Bank of Mexico, where he had a substantial participation in the draft of different financial regulations, in the negotiation of financial services chapters in commercial treaties and in structuring collateralized financing transactions.

Notably, he played an important role in implementing regulations on disruptive technology adoption in financial services, involving the Fintech and payment systems’ regulatory frameworks in Mexico. He led teams to draft regulations regarding electronic payments, wallets, virtual asset management, virtual currencies, sandboxes, APIs, the SPEI 2.0 reform and banks’ liquidity requirements, among others.